Etymologies

Examples

Alice must have had a dull time of it, for while the room rang with merry jests in Latin, flavoured sometimes with a little Greek, and even the children could join in the laughter, she alone was ignorant of the matter, and felt as a deaf man feels when he watches people dancing to music that he cannot hear.

It's possible that for US audiences his bland, fleeting performances in family movies are effectively magnified and "flavoured" by memories of his ferocious standup set - a flavour unavailable to the British public.